Bad News for Open Source: Scare Tactics

If you are afraid of the dark, and scream out to the world that you are, people will tease you, play with you, and if possible and necessary, harm you using your fear.

Yes, we do agree that Steve Balmer indicated he would go after Linux with patents. But he also said Google wont be there in five years.

Why listen to someone who still believes in the "Huff, Puff and Blow" model of fighting competition?

I guess whoever this Peren fellow is, likes the limelight like our erstwhile JBoss hero, and is constantly digging up the issue of patent lawsuits against linux.

Let us say there is a threat. Why not take the calm approach, examine what those patents are, and how they would affect linux and produce an actual case study? Why do you need to yell, and scream, and kick and everything, instead of actually spreading out before the world, what those physical threats are?

How is the RIM case related to the Linux - software patent problem? Or is he just expressing his antipathy to the USPTO. The tree-hugger approach has not helped Linux in 20 years, it suddenly wont start doing so, tomorrow.

Grow up!